Kinga
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kinga is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., ungarische Kurzform von.
- PLPoland1 in 315◐
- HUHungary1 in 549
- NONorway1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈142K ●
- Sources
- 184 ●
- 1 in 315 ◐
across 11 countries
36K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., ungarische Kurzform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #113 | 121,584△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 315 | 122K | Kinga | 173 |
| HU Hungary | #137 | 17,803△ | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 549 | 18K | Kinga | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,746 | 2.8K rec. | — | 5 | Kinga | 116 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,115 | 2.8K rec. | — | 1 | Kinga | 113 |
| US United States | — | 1,272 | 6.7K rec. | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Kinga | 184 |
| AU Australia | — | 838 | 759 rec. | — | 1 | Kinga | 63 |
| RO Romania | #724 | 747 | 465 rec. | — | — | Kinga | 43 |
| SE Sweden | #971 | 626 | 852 rec. | 1 in 16K | 626 | Kinga | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | 471 | 421 rec. | — | 5 | Kinga | 46 |
| AT Austria | — | 456 | 221 rec. | — | 39 | Kinga | 45 |
| NO Norway | — | 446△ | 177 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.2K | Kinga | 27 |
| SK Slovakia | #809 | 271 | 37 rec. | — | — | Kinga | 39 |
Roughly 122K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 315). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish593K73%
- Hungarian196K24%
- English7.9K1%
- German3.9K1%
- French1.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 593,430 | 73% |
| Hungarian | 195,627 | 24% |
| English | 7,934 | 1% |
| German | 3,890 | 1% |
| French | 1,618 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kinga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-pro, plant : Anonaceae: Papowia obovata
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In English, A Bantu language of Tanzania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of king
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to protect, shield
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, stop
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 4 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 13 |
| 1981 | 4 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 21 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 35 years between 1970–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Święta Kingab. 1224HUPolish royal; later Poor Clare abbess
- Kinga Gönczb. 1947HUHungarian politician
- Kinga Preisb. 1971PLPolish actress
- Kinga Czigányb. 1972HUCanoe racer
- Kinga Ilgnerb. 1975PLPolish actress
- Kinga Baranowskab. 1975PLPolish mountain climber
- Kinga Philippsb. 1976USAmerican actress and journalist
- Kinga Bótab. 1977HUcanoeist
- Monika Mrozowskab. 1980PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Kinga Gajewskab. 1990PLPolish politician and political scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 350 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kinga?
- We estimate roughly 142 thousand people bear Kinga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kinga have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 122 thousand people bear Kinga in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kinga.
- Where is Kinga most common?
- Kinga is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 315 people carrying it.
- How common is Kinga compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kinga is the 113th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Kinga a male or female name?
- Kinga is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kinga mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., ungarische Kurzform von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kinga” — the 113th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.